FIRST EXPOSURE

another thread on here asks "what Alien film did you first see? which got me to thinking... when was the first time i saw ANYTHING ALIEN? i was 9 years old (1979), i lived in Phoenix Arizona at the time, my grandmother would take me and my cousin to carport sales in the Phoenix area, we were lower-working class types, so we'd usually go to the upper-class areas that had carport sales i was thumbing thru a cardboard box that had a bunch of magazines in them, and i happened upon a copy of OMNI Magazine, i opened it, and the double page spread of the Space Jockey pretty much knocked me over...i was INTRIGUED, i had been neck deep in ALL things sci-fi and Star Wars related...but THIS was definitely NOT Star Wars but definitely was sci-fi related, i somehow convinced my grandma to buy me the magazine, and i spent the better part of the week pretty much transfixed on the one powerful image that following week, there was some kids in my classroom literally arguing over a set of bubble gum trading cards, i had a fat stack of my own Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica cards, so i was thinking they were all in a huff over the same cards... come to find out, they were all excited about a set of ALIEN bubble gum cards, i asked to take a look at one of them, and it was (of course) the card of the alien just about to attack Ripley just before he was jettisoned out of the Narcissus again, i was STUNNED, just trying to figure out what "it" was i ended up trading a decent amount of my Star Wars / BSG cards for that ALIEN card, and a few others... i was wondering, what was all of you guys first exposure to anything ALIEN related...??